TEST DRIVE #18 - Ten Forward & the Low Grav Gymnasium

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Option 001. Ten Forward: The first thing you see is a bar. A large, lively bar filled with many different faces and many different smells, sights, and sounds. This is Ten Forward, the Enterprise's off-duty lounge; feel free to get acquainted with your fellow travelers and try to find somebody who's in charge: this is your new home now, after all...







Option 002. The Low-Gravity Gymnasium: The gym is a large room with several alcove-like sections housing the aerobics and martial arts areas, a parrises squares area, an anbo-jyutsu court, and a separate fencing room. Most noteworthy is the area dedicated for zero-gravity training.

Zero-gravity can be, well, kind of weird, because it's not like a gradual loss of the pressure holding you to the floor--you may have taken the turbolifts, just expecting to take a leisurely run, or maybe work out with a treadmill to get in some cardio, but the minute you step into the gym you're floating, as is anything you might have been holding or bringing with you.

What now? Panic, flail, and try to swim through the air back to where the gravity is normal? Do you make the best of it and tough it out to get your exercise in? Or, as we recommend, do you start having fun with the sudden game of weightlessness? Pick your personal scenario and have fun with all the other weightless people.

Boy, this is gonna make hitting the showers after your workout awkward...

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Re: Ten Forward!

[element_wizard]

The guy sitting next to him doesn't stand out in the same way that Magneto does with his fancy costume. But Alec is carrying a sword and has rather obviously pointy ears.

He glanced over at Erik when he sits and helpfully points at his neck, "You might want to get that looked at."

[prefers_magneto]

Erik glances back. "Hmm?" His hand follows the man's eyes to his neck. Oh, right. Raven shot him.

It could have been worse.

"I'm not sure that's an option now." He glances at the man again. "You don't look like you fit in much more than I do. Did you just sort of end up here as well?"

[element_wizard]

"They actually have pretty good medical facilities here." From a pocket Alec pulls out a handkerchief and offers it. No reason for him to bleed all over the place. Or bleed in general.

"Pretty much anyone who isn't wearing those pajama like uniforms doesn't belong here. And I suppose I did sort of end up here, yeah."

[prefers_magneto]

"Where were you before you were here?" Erik asked, putting the handkerchief to his wound with a nod.

[element_wizard]

"I was..." A long pause is drawn out from him as he tried to remember. "New York, I think... with the boyfriend. I travel around lot so it's hard to keep it straight sometimes. But New York. Boyfriend and his uncle."

[prefers_magneto]

"New York?" He glanced at the sword. "Where does that come into anything New York?"

[element_wizard]

"You just asked where I was last. Besides, there are reenactment type societies and LARPS in New York, aren't there?" Alec said. Though really that sword is definitely not for any sword of LARP or reenactment society. It looks like something well used and blooded.

Also, it's made out of a non-iron based metal.

[prefers_magneto]

"I don't know what a 'LARP' is," Erik said. He glanced at the sword again. "Where are you from, then?"

[element_wizard]

"Live action role play. It's like dungeons and dragons mixed with theater." He takes a drink from his glass.

"And I'm from a small no one has ever heard of planet."

[prefers_magneto]

"You're from another planet." A beat. "So maybe you can tell me how we got on a space ship."

[element_wizard]

"Kidnapped by aliens," he said, "Or one alien in particular."

[prefers_magneto]

Erik frowned. "For what purpose?"

[element_wizard]

"Practical. Joke."

[prefers_magneto]

"...What?"

[element_wizard]

"We're all here as a practical joke. The alien being who brought us here thinks it's funny to mess with the ship's captain."

[prefers_magneto]

"So we've all been ripped from our lives for a practical joke," Erik concluded flatly.

[element_wizard]

"Long and short of it, yes. Pretty much," Alec said. "But supposedly all powerful beings tend to act like that."

He should know, being one.

[prefers_magneto]

Erik raised an eyebrow. "Do they?" he returned dryly.

[element_wizard]

"Just speaking from experience."

And he does have a lot of experience - on both sides of the coins.

"But, I might not be one hundred percent correct on that one. I haven't met every obnoxiously powerful being out there, after all."